Jo is a Research Assistant with the UK Team, working across the Professional Learning and Secondary cases. She is also a PhD student at the University of Hertfordshire, researching; Aesthetic and Embodied Learning for Democracy in Future Societies’ with a relationship to and focus on Aesthetic Justice. There are many parallels between Jo’s research and the AECED Project.
Jo has a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art (UCL), with experience across the educational sector as an art teacher gaining a PGCE from the University of Hertfordshire. Jo gained a Masters Degree in Social Justice and Education (IOE) in 2021 whilst working with underserved and excluded teenagers within secondary Alternative Provision. Her MA founded her interest in using arts-based research methods and art pedagogy in developing anti-racist and socially just teaching practices.
Jo is interested in how educators can critically and imaginatively co-create holistic teaching practices that resist and counter the perpetuation of educational injustices, marginalization and student exclusion.